TEACHING IDIOMS AND RIDDLES TO STIMULATE THINKING IN STUDENTS OF LANGUAGES.
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
TEACHING IDIOMS AND RIDDLES TO STIMULATE THINKING IN STUDENTS OF LANGUAGES.
Original language description
The author of this paper has tried to implement teaching idioms and riddles in the classes of a foreign language as an inevitable tool to challenge students? thinking skill. How students master academic material does not depend on their ability to memorize but on their skill to think. To initiate learners? thinking skill by finding the meaning of figurative English phrases and riddles was the point of this study. Certain techniques developed by the author were used to help stimulate the analytic skill of the students of intermediate English level. The thinking skill plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between students? ability to comprehend and remember. Students? metaphoric awareness in a foreign language accomplished by means of the thinking skill and not memorizing was the main objective of this paper.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AM - Pedagogy and education
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Efficiency and Responsibility in Education 2014 Proceedings
ISBN
978-80-213-2468-8
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
310-319
Publisher name
Neuveden
Place of publication
Prague,Czech University of Life Sciences
Event location
Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences
Event date
Jun 5, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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